Abstract
A photonic integrated circuit architecture for implementing frequency upconversion is proposed. The circuit consists of a splitter and combiner interconnected by two stages of differentially driven phase modulators having multimode interference coupler between the stages. A transfer matrix approach is used to model the operation of the architecture. The predictions of the model are validated by simulations performed using an industry standard software tool. The intrinsic conversion efficiency of the proposed design is improved by 6 dB over the alternative functionally equivalent circuit based on dual parallel Mach–Zehnder modulators known in the prior art. A two-tone analysis is presented to study the linearity of the proposed circuit, and a comparison is provided over the alternative. The proposed circuit is suitable for integration in any platform that offers linear electro-optic phase modulation such as , silicon, III–V, or hybrid technology.
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27 October 2015: A correction was made to the abstract.
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